[OS X TeX] Installing of calligra

Christian Burk maillists at gmx.de
Sun Feb 4 09:59:18 EST 2007


Am 09.01.2007 um 22:49 schrieb Gerben Wierda:

> On Jan 9, 2007, at 20:47 , Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 9 janv. 07 à 18:23, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>>
>>> I wonder if there are type 1 versions of these fonts since using  
>>> mf would, I believe, produce bitmap fonts (at some designated  
>>> resolution) as well as the font metric files. Bitmap fonts tend  
>>> to look pretty bad on the screen (maybe not as bad in large  
>>> sizes?) but should print fine if the bitmaps are designed for the  
>>> printer resolution.
>>
>> There's apparently no PostScript Type 1 version of the font, but  
>> Gerben's providing an i-Package for mftrace (the system used to  
>> produce the Latin Modern fonts if I'm not mistaken). I've no idea  
>> whether or not mftrace is simple to use, but that might be worth  
>> trying.
>
> Latin Modern fonts are not created by tracing bitmaps. CM-Super is.  
> LM fonts are fonts created from Metafont sources through the  
> Metatype1 system. Probably this is a Metafont subset that allows  
> conversion to Type1 and OpenType, but I do not know the details.
>
> CM-Super has been created using Autotrace.

Thanks for your help guys, but I realy start losing the plot...

I only need some kind of "handwriting" to format a dedication in my  
final thesis. Would there be another way to do so?
I am using the last Tex installation from Gerben, i think is teTeX.

Thanks
Christian
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